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You can watch BBC4  and the latest episodes of Big Bang, Homeland, HIMYM etc... and there are also English subtitles!

Happy holidays!

james

Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team | Video on TED.com

Here is the TedTalk about the activity we did today in class.
... Any comments??

Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team | Video on TED.com: "Tom Wujec presents some surprisingly deep research into the "marshmallow problem" -- a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?"

▶ What are the secrets of a great WikiTalk? Phil Waknell - WikiStage ESCP Europe - YouTube

▶ What are the secrets of a great WikiTalk? Phil Waknell - WikiStage ESCP Europe - YouTube:

You might enjoy this talk about giving talks!
What do you think? How about a comment?
(BTW he's slated to speak this coming Sunday at the WikiStage event at the ENCP.)





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WikiStage.org -- this Sunday afternoon and evening

WikiStage.org: "08.12.2013 - 1:00PM to 9:00PM
ESCP Europe, Paris Campus
79, avenue de la République, 75011 Paris

"The central theme is "Curiosity" because we believe that it is intellectual curiosity that pushes people towards new discoveries. By cultivating a curiosity for different perspectives from people with various backgrounds, we seek to contribute to a world with greater empathy and less indifference.

Go to the Event Website to find out more about the speakers and to get your ticket"

I hope you can make it! (Early-bird tickets are about 16 euros.)



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The Marshmallow Challenge

The Marshmallow Challenge:

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Ender's Game

Hey!

I invite you to watch this film. I have seen it two weeks ago and I found it very cool. You may have heard of it : in what we can call a near future, mankind is threatened by aliens. They had been push back once, but the government fears they will return. In order to prevent Earth and its people, they educated child with great mind talents to become the new generals of a new kind of army. Why children? Because their mind are not spoiled with the barriers of the adults. Or it may exists another reason.

You can watch here the trailer (in English :) ):

 Trailer Ender's Game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP0cUBi4hwE

Have fun!

Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories

Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: The Original Macintosh
Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh computer, and the people who created it. (119 stories)

Since I hope that some of you have registered for Daniel Kottke's talk at school on November 6th (at 6 pm)... I thought it might be nice to let you read some of the inside stories of the Macintosh project!

Have a good weekend.
james

ps... comments?

Welcome!

Welcome to this shared webspace for the Advanced Mongolian English Class on Wednesdays!

You'll be hearing soon from the "bloggers of the week" :  Viktor, Guillaume and Muriel.

Here's where each of you can contribute interesting videos and websites in English (or Mongolian) to share with the rest of the group.  (Other members of the group should naturally comment on the articles that are posted.... otherwise it's like "peeing in a fiddle!" for the poster.)

We also have a link to the notes of our classes on the blog, with the expressions and vocabulary we discover... it's a shared Google document so again each of us can edit and add to it.  Later we can add links to other documents with your book blurbs & critiques, etc.

After accepting the invitation each member of the class will be made an admin which of course gives you (almost) unlimited power!

See you soon
james

(don't forget Kottke on Nov 6th... you have to register...)
PS: posts to the blog go to the mailing list so we get updates in our email....  :-)

Wednesday students in Mongolia (photo by Julyinireland)